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Mass Culture, Popular Culture, and Social Life in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780429689796
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group
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The papers in this collection have a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers, those by Chaney and Featherstone respectively, discuss aspects of this theme in a general, global context, all the others are concerned more specifically with the regional context of the Middle East. All the articles in this collection were

Georg Stauth is Lecturer at the Sociology of Development Research Centre of the University of Bielefeld. He was Visiting Professor at the Ain Shams University Cairo in 1977/78, at the Cairo University in 1981. Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Flinders University, Adelaide (Australia), in 1985. Various publications on Egypt, Iran, Turkey (peasants and state) - Islam, social theory. Advisory Editor of "Theory, Culture and Society".

Sami Zubalda is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Birkbeck College, University of London. Various Visiting Teaching Posts in the Middle East and France.

Various books and publications on racism, Islam and Islamist movements and social theory. Co-Editor of "Economy and Society".